PhD thesis on minimal techno is now available as a free download. Here's your chance to get a behind-the-scenes (and very geeky!) look at Liine, iPad controllers and the Plastikman Live Ableton Live setup. You can also hear one of the tracks from Plastikman Live in Madrid 2011 (thanks Rich!) and the transcription I did in traditional music notation.

Burn Studios have announced that Oblique Industries' reworking of Plastikman's "Ask Yourself" has been given the nod by Richie Hawtin from over 1,300 entrants and will appear on the upcoming digital version of Arkives.

Liine, the music software company for whom Richie Hawtin is a spokesperson and co-developer, have unveiled a new iPhone/iPad app that allows users to create their own versions of Plastikman tracks from original parts.